The Promised Land

What first impresses me after travelling through Israel is just how perfect a stage God created to play out Salvation History.  In a land no bigger than New Jersey, God has created majestic mountains, hills, plains, valleys, deserts, sea shores, rivers, canyons, caves, gardens and wastelands – truly amazing.  A … Continue reading

Believe!

Even before the time of Christ, Jews would be required to journey to Jerusalem to worship at the Temple for the three high holy days: Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of the Tabernacles.  At those times Jerusalem would be packed with pilgrims from all over the kingdom.  It is the … Continue reading

The Prodigal Son’s Father

The gospel this week was the parable of the prodigal son.  We all know the story – father has two sons, younger son demands his inheritance, the father obliges.  Younger son takes it and blows it all on loose women and fast living.  Broke, hungry and alone, he decides his … Continue reading

God Forbid!

Spending most of my life on the east coast, specifically New York, and specifically Italian, there are certain phrases that seem to have been around me for as long as I can remember.  Now this may not be just an Italian, east coast phrase – but I seem to associate … Continue reading

V-Day Redo

We are such a get it done and move-on society.  This week it seemed as if there were so many things happening – cruise ship literally gone viral, manhunt concluded, state of the mis-union, blade runner murder, meteor attacks and the Grammys.   We had very little chance to focus on … Continue reading

The Angels Among Us

  Is it just coincidence that my belief in coincidence has diminished as my trust in God has increased? I have found that once I accepted salvation, I felt a greater desire to alienate myself from ‘this world’.  Not so much the physical earth, which God created and is beautiful, … Continue reading